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Today's utilitarian temper, like a wood, rank or otherwise, is wedging its way between the mossy old stones of scholastic tradition. And the Harvard Houses, in their frantic game of leap-frog with Oxford and Cambridge, may yet wake up to find themselves more English than modern England itself...
...shots. Lott, in the first ten for the last five years, had never reached the final before. In his match with Vines, who was a flash-in-the-pan a year ago but who had won three out of this year's four important invitation tournaments, Lott controlled his temper and his shots in the first set, which he won, after two narrow escapes on his serve, 9-7. Vines won the next set 6-3. In the third, Lott lost his serve at 7-all, let the next game go without trying...
...tenth game of the fourth set, Lott gave signs of having lost part of his temper, with good reason. He had had Vines 5-2; then Vines had won his own serve, broken through on Lett's, was winning his own again to tie the score. Lott beat his leg with his racket, lay on the court for a full minute after falling down. He dusted off his trousers with a towel, whacked a ball high into the grandstand when he missed a point, yelped when he missed another. When Vines won the tenth game, Lott, Vines...
...sartorial negligence still drives his wife to tears. Her latest wail: Under pretense of being a guest at tea, a friendly tailor measured the professor's size by sight, made him a suit. When the tailor presented the finished suit and explained the ruse, the professor lost his temper (a rare event), chased the tailor from the Einstein's Berlin apartment, refused to wear the suit. He gives his clothes money to charity. Last week he was vacationing at Caputh near Potsdam, wearing white linen pajamas, no socks, no shoes...
...paper substitute for cinema film) who found himself temporarily out of a job and turned his hobby into a cab-horse. But he was beautiful as the day, and women of all girths and dimensions flocked to his instruction. Martin was kindhearted, with a good digestion and an equable temper; but before the summer was nearly over his patience and self-control were shaky. Of course he fell in love, and of course he had a stormy time of it. Equally of course all turned out for the melodramatic best...